Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
E.F. Schumacher
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".
Alan J. Perlis
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous